On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 08:50:47AM -0500, Vince Weaver wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/evlist.h
> > @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ int perf_evlist__strerror_open(struct perf_evlist
> > *evlist, int err, char *buf, s
> > static inline unsigned int perf_mmap__read_head(struct perf_mmap *mm)
> > {
> > struct perf_event_mmap_page *pc = mm->base;
> > - int head = pc->data_head;
> > + int head = ACCESS_ONCE(pc->data_head);
> > rmb();
> > return head;
>
> so is this ACCESS_ONCE required now for proper access to the mmap buffer?
Pretty much; otherwise your C compiler is allowed to mess it up.
> remember that there are users trying to use this outside of the kernel
> where we don't necessarily have access to internal kernl macros. Some of
> these users aren't necessarily GPLv2 compatible either (PAPI for example
> is more or less BSD licensed) so just cutting and pasting chunks of
> internal kernel macros isn't always the best route either.
Other license stuff is not my problem; that said I doubt there's much
copyright to claim on a volatile cast.
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